ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12636, 22 May 1919, Page 6

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES

A BROKEN LEG. Durinp; the course of a football match between the firemen off the s.bCarpentaria and the s.s. lonic, on the recreation ground at Lyttelton yesterday afternoon, one of the players, mimed Thomas Hagar, broke nis leg. Ho was removed to the casualty wal'd, where he was attended to by l>r Newel l He will bo taken to the Christchurch Hospital this morning. DEATH UNDER ANAESTHETIC. IPkr iPasns Association.] \ AUCKLAND, May 21. The death of William Thomas Tyler a married man, occurred while under an anaesthetic at the hospital last evening. At the inquest a verdict was returned that death was due to respiratory failure while under an anajsthetic all precautions being taken before the operation, and all means being adopted to revive the patient on liis collapse. IDENTIFIED. [Ps* Press Association.] May 21 The man who was killed on the railway line near Auckland station on ° f la ® t, . week has keen identified T l lr” to tlte Mental Hospital from Hamilton on May i£ cbarged from fclle institution FOUND DROWNED. [Per Press Association ] w HOKITIKA. May 21 Marwick Duncan, aged fifteen was drowned in the Totnra Lagoon y CS S day while riding on horseback His riderless horse was found and a search **■* ~